I'd offer that the OSI protocol stack was probably significantly more
reviewed than the TCP/IP stack.
At the very least, running code is an empirical proof that an
architecture _can_ work.
Rgds,
-drc
On Aug 1, 2007, at 8:35 AM, Eric Burger wrote:
My faulty recollection is that in our game of rock-paper-scissors,
Running
Code beats Untested Idea, but Well Reviewed Architecture and
Protocol beats
Running Code.
On 7/31/07 11:34 PM, "Keith Moore" <moore(_at_)cs(_dot_)utk(_dot_)edu> wrote:
Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino wrote:
IMHO, "running code" gets more credit than is warranted. While
it is
certainly useful as both proof of concept and proof of
implementability,
mere existence of running code says nothing about the quality of
the
design, its security, scalability, breadth of applicability, and so
forth. "running code" was perhaps sufficient in ARPAnet days
when there
were only a few hundred hosts and a few thousand users of the
network.
It's not sufficient for global mission critical infrastructure.
tend to agree. how about "multiple interoperable implementations"?
that's certainly better than one implementation, especially if
implemented on multiple platforms. though still, I think, this is
not
sufficient in general.
again, I'm biased because I've heard too many arguments of the
form "we
have running code for <deficient protocol>, and it's already
(somewhat)
deployed so we have to approve it as a standard without changing it".
Keith
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